What Book Are you Reading? - 2019

[olkofri]

McFadden's TobakkoNacht: The Antismoking Endgame.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Malice in Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of the Laurel Canyon Murders.

Just finished and worth a look if the case interests you in particular or you enjoy true crime in general or are perhaps a John Holmes fan
Chris

 

[ashdigger]

The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn

 

[diamondback]

The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn

+1 This should be mandatory reading in High School...
Forewarned is forearmed ;-)

 

[ashdigger]

Diamondback, I read it in college and it means much more 35 years later.

 

[ssjones]

Artemis, Andy Weir. His next book after "The Martian". This is a crime-drama set on the moon. Pretty good so far!
Next up is the final installment in the crime trilogy by Don Winslow (one of my favorite authors). "The Power of the Dog" and "The Cartel", first two were excellent.

 

[seanv]

I just finished “ hard way out” it was written by a former hells angel member turned informant. Decent read but it felt rushed. Not sure what’s up next.

 

[diamondback]

Diamondback, I read it in college and it means much more 35 years later.

Nothing warms my heart more than finding like-minded people.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Vladimir Medinsky, Myths about Russian alcohol consumption,laziness and brutality.

 

[trubka2]

I didn't know they'd translated "Medinsky". Wow.
For fun and/or to put myself to sleep: Akunin's Fandorin series (great historical detective/adventure stuff, not sure if it's been translated); for some reason, simultaneously re-reading Evelyn Waugh (_Decline and Fall_ has a great pipe-smoking character). Also still wading through the second volume of Kaplan's Sinatra biography - still interesting, but it gets pretty hard to care after the first "retirement".
For work: ...Yawn... Tolstoy mostly, plus mss.

 

[seanv]

Yesterday I finished “ all quiet on the western front “

Very good read. Next up is guns of August

 

[olkofri]

Yesterday I finished “ all quiet on the western front “

How different is it from the movie?

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Finished Dan Simmons' Terror. Now I've started his Summer of Night. Really liking Dan Simmons' writing style.

 

[pipehunter]

^ I really enjoyed the Hyperion Cantos many years ago and have been thinking about rereading them. I haven't gotten into his other work as much but haven't tried Terror yet.
Finally gotten around to reading The Black Company books (of the first seven or eight to them at least) and have been enjoying them greatly.

 

[lochinvar]

I just started The Brothers Karamazov, as well as reading/listening to PG Wodehouse. I also just got about five books on historic London, Scottish and English Country Pubs. There are open books allover my house.

 

[seanv]

Olkofri- I haven’t seen the movie yet. Maybe this weekend if it’s on Netflix

 

[techie]

I just started How Linux Works by Brian Ward. Fascinating look into the inner workings of the OS.

 

[archerdarkpint]

"Blue Horizon" by Wilbur Smith and the Operator's Manual for a Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer.

 

[ashdigger]

Just started "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" it's a great exam of The Troubles during the 1970's.

 

[darwin]

The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Kieth. Eye opening.